Description:
Base of compact yellow limestone,
moulded above and below, chipped along the edges
(w:
0.95 x h:
0.35 x d:
0.78);
there are holes for the attachment of a statue on top.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.03.
Date: Probably first century BCE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
near the West Gate, among the ruins of a building on the north side of the Decumanus;
found before 1936.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Maskyx (scil. son) of Agaimenes, citizen of Ptolemais: for his virtue and his goodwill towards their city, the citizens of Arsinoe (scil. honoured him).
Arabic translation
Translation by: Muna Abdelhamed
ماسكيكا (بن) أغيمينيوس، مواطن (من مدينة) طلميثة: مواطني مدينة آرسينوي قاموا بتكريمه) لفضيلته وحسن نيته تجاه مدينتهم.
Commentary
Line 1: the name sounds indigenous but the patronymic is Greek.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 470, p. 238, pl. LXXXIV, fig.53, whence SEG 9.417, PHI 324264.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).
